Handle for umbrellas



Patented Oct. 11, 19 27.

UNITED STATES PATENT EGFFICE.

HANDLE FOE UMBRELLAS.

Application filed November 1?,1926.

The improved device holds the tips of the umbrella ribs in an annular depression formed in the handle, which is telescopically movable with reference to portions of my de vice that are positioned fixedly with reference to the umbrella shank. To a part of the umbrella within the handle positioned fixedly with reference to the shank is attached a cord which passing freely through a slot in the umbrella handle can move longitudinally in said slot, and by which the umbrella. can be carried; but the umbrella can also be carried by the handle in the usual way. The handle is a specialized one, which carries fixedly upon it and usually integrally with it a tip cup. Usually this tip cup is an annular depression in the handle itself,

and it is so illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is an elevation of a handle containing my improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical section. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the telescoping sleeves when the tips are released from the tip cup of the handle and parts contained in it. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the inner of the two telescoping sleeves. Fig. 5 is a section on line 5 5 of Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 6 is an elevation of the two telescoping sleeves positioned as when the tips are retained in the tip cup. Fig. 7 is a section on line 7-7 .be tits pro ecting inwardly from these I One of the sleeves may have a of Fig. 6.

The handle 1, has a socket, 12, in which are placed the sleeves, 4, and 5, and several of the parts co-operating with them and an annular socket, 41, intended to hold and re tain the tips of the umbrella ribs, 2, 2. These tips are held between the walls of the socket, 39, and the shank, 40. This socket forms the tip cup.

In the socket, 12, in practice extending from the end of the socket nearer the frame, to a distance somewhat spaced from the upper wall of the socket, is placed and secured, by gluing or otherwise, the outer, 5, of the telescoping sleeves. This sleeve carries the studs engaging with the guides in the inner, 4, of the two sleeves. The studs are very suitably formed by the pin, 26, in the outer sleeve, 5, and the guides by the horizontal slots, 17, and 18, vertical slot. in the inner sleeve, 4, that intersect with each other. The inner sleeve, 4, is secured to the shank, as will be hereinafter fully explained. The umbrella can be carried by a cord, 8, attached to a pin, 15, secured to the inner sleeve, 4. In practice the inner sleeve, 4, is

Serial No. 148,838.

positioned so that it extends slightly above 7 the top of the sleeve, 5, when the handle is positioned to retain the tips, 2, in the cup. 41, with the ends of the pin, 15, projecting and limiting the collapsing telescopic movement of the tubes, by impactin on the top of the tube, 5. It telescopes, in extending, towards the upper wall of the socket, 12, and is controlled in this movement by stops, which may be this top wall itself or the walls of the horizontal slot, 17. The inner sleeve, 4, and the parts embraced in it, form together a stud that is solidly secured to the shank, 40. The plug, 20, is secured to the sleeve, and is provided with a mortise in which is fitted a tenon, 29, formed of the extremity of the shank, 40. An advantage of this mortise and tenon construction consists in the utility to fit any shank into a few standard sizes of inner sleeves. When cords, as, 3, are provided for carrying the umbrella, they are most conveniently secured to the pin, 15, and a slot, 7, in the handle. 1, can be provided large enough to allow the cords, 3, to pass freely through it. The inner, 4, and outer, 5, sleeves can be provided with catches, 35, and 36, that will register with each other when the pin, 26, is turned into the horizontal. slot, 17, away from the vertical slot, 18. These slots may sleeves. springing lip, 25, pressing against the other.

When the umbrella is carried closed, the sleeves take normally the position. shown in Figs. 6, and '4' g the catches, 35, and 86, regis- .ter with each other, and hold the pin, 26, positioned in the slot, 17, away from the slot, 18. In this position the umbrella can be carried furled by the handle without fear of releasing the tips, 2. To open it, the handle is slightly rotated the catches, 36, and 35, disengaging from each other and the pin, 26, rotating into the slot, 18, and being drawn downward in it, as is shown in Fig. 3, thus disengaging the tips, 2, 2, and permitting the umbrella to be opened.

I claim- 1. In an umbrella having a handle and tip cup permanently secured to each other, and movable toward and away from the frame, and thereby engaging and disengaging the rib tips of the frame from the tip cup, the said handle having a longitudinal socket therein, a sleeve immovably secured in the interior of this socket, in combination with a sleeve secured immovably to the shank of the umbrella, and telescoping in the sleeve immovahly secured to the handle, one of the said sleeves being provided with intersecting horizontal and Vertical guides, and the other of said sleeves being provided with a stud moving in said guiocs and said sleeves being also provided with catches engaging with each other when the said stud is in the horizontal guide away from its intersection with the said vertical guide and a cord securely anchored to said sleeve secured to said shank, the said handle having a slot extending from the inner end of said socket to the top oi said handle of sufficient diameter to permit the cord to pass freely through it, through which said cord passes.

2. The device as defined in claim 1, with the following additional element, namely One of said sleeves being provided with a 20 springing lip pressing against the other.

J OHN M. DELLINGER. 

